Prevalence and Determinants of Exclusive Breastfeeding Practice among Mothers of Children Aged 6–24 Months in Hail, Saudi Arabia by Mashail Basheir Alshammari, Hassan Kasim Haridi

“…A pretested structured questionnaire was used to interview the consented participants. Results. …”
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Herpes zoster vaccine effectiveness against incident herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia in an older US population: a cohort study. by Sinéad M Langan, Liam Smeeth, David J Margolis, Sara L Thomas

“…Adjusted hazard ratios were estimated using time-updated Cox proportional hazards models. …”
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Surgical treatment of posttraumatic spinal cord tethering and syringomyelia: a retrospective cohort investigation of cost, reimbursement, and financial sustainability by Phillip Jaszczuk, Denis Bratelj, Crescenzo Capone, Susanne Stalder, Marcel Rudnick, Rajeev K. Verma, Tobias Pötzel, Michael Fiechter

“…The duration of surgeries was used to estimate the costs of care in the operating room (OR) considering established bench marks. …”
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A KeyBERT-Enhanced Pipeline for Electronic Information Curriculum Knowledge Graphs: Design, Evaluation, and Ontology Alignment by Guanghe Zhuang, Xiang Lu

“…Comparative experiments demonstrate a ~20% increase in non-zero matrix coverage and a ~40% boost in edge count (from 5100 to 7100), significantly enhancing graph connectivity. …”
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Effects of removing reimbursement restrictions on targeted therapy accessibility for non-small cell lung cancer treatment in Taiwan: an interrupted time series study by Jason C Hsu, Chen-Fang Wei, Szu-Chun Yang

“…The average time to prescription reduced by 65.84% and 41.59% following coverage of erlotinib by insurance and gefitinib/erlotinib as second-line treatments in 2007–2008 and following gefitinib as the first-line treatment in 2011.Conclusions The changes in reimbursement policies had a significant impact on the accessibility of targeted therapies for NSCLC treatment. …”
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Flash drought and heatwave compound events increased in strength and length from 1980 to 2022 in China by Kaiqi Fu, Hongyong Yu, Yao Zhang, Dan Zhu, Hongyan Liu, Kaicun Wang

“…Furthermore, the spatial coverage of FDHW events across China significantly expanded. …”
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An integrated mutation-based immunoinformatic approach incorporating variability in epitopes: a study based on HIV subtype C by Saurav Kumar Mishra, Neeraj Kumar, Md. Harun Or Rashid, Md. Harun Or Rashid, Sharifa Sultana, Turki M. Dawoud, Mohammed Bourhia, John J. Georrge

“…These selected and mutated epitopes were used for the non-mutated and mutated vaccine construction, considering linker for fusion and adjuvant to improve the activity. …”
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Mobile applications for promoting and supporting breastfeeding: Systematic review and meta‐analysis by Monika Ziebart, Michael Kammermeier, Berthold Koletzko, Bernadeta Patro‐Golab

“…Joanna Briggs Institute tools were used for risk of bias assessment. Six RCTs, one quasi‐experimental and two cohort studies, mainly from high‐income countries, were included. …”
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How to strengthen primary health care? An exploratory study on the policy of vertical integration of high-quality medical resources based on symbiosis theory by Linyan Zhao, Jie Du, Wenhao Liu, Qun Xu, Yuhui Zhang, Yuhui Zhang

“…It contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of universal health coverage (UHC) set out by the World Health Organization (WHO). …”
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Public health impact of herpes zoster vaccination on older adults in Singapore: a modeling study by Helen Oh, Carol Tan, Charles Williams, Nikolaos Giannelos, Cheryl Ng

“…The present study modeled the public health impact of HZ vaccination in Singapore using ZOster ecoNomic Analysis (ZONA) model adapted with Singapore-specific key model inputs, where available. …”
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Birch bark vessel from the Razdumie area by Golovchenko N.N., Pilipenko S.A.

“…Having considered a wide range of similarities to the item, the authors came to the conclusion that, despite a wide territorial and chronological coverage, vessels of this type are primarily united by the prevalence of the raw materials used for their manufacture and the simplicity of technological performance (layer method). …”
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Study on landslide hazard risk in Wenzhou based on slope units and machine learning approaches by Dengjie Kang, Sheng Dan, Zhang Hua, Lu Jingyi, Wang Chenlu, Wang Zhenguo, Wang Shaohua

“…According to different rainfall return periods, the proportion of very high-risk slope units increased from 5.35 to 40.39% under the 100-year return period. (4) A case study of Xuekou Village validated the practical application of the slope unit risk assessment results and proposed preventive measures for medium-to-high-risk units, such as regular monitoring and enhanced vegetation coverage, to mitigate landslide risks.…”
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First evidence of lymphatic filariasis transmission interruption in Cameroon: Progress towards elimination. by Hugues C Nana-Djeunga, Magellan Tchouakui, Guy R Njitchouang, Jules B Tchatchueng-Mbougua, Philippe Nwane, André Domche, Jean Bopda, Stève Mbickmen-Tchana, Julie Akame, Ann Tarini, Emilienne Epée, Benjamin D Biholong, Yaobi Zhang, Jean J Tougoue, Achille Kabore, Flobert Njiokou, Joseph Kamgno

“…LF transmission was assessed through a community-based transmission assessment survey (TAS) using an immunochromatographic test (ICT) for the detection of circulating filarial antigen (CFA) in children aged 5-8 years old.…”
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Experiences and needs of family caregivers for patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) in Palestine by Zareefa Shaabna, Maysoon S.Abdalrahim, Ruqayya Zeilani

“…Data were collected through in-depth interviews and analyzed using Colaizzi’s phenomenological method to capture the essence of caregivers’ lived experiences. …”
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Impact of capacity building training on emergency medical services for chardham yatra: a pre-test post-test study in a hilly region of North India by Nidhi Kaeley, Shantam Pokhriyal, Madhur Uniyal, Johnny Saxena, Mimanshu Mittal, Patel Sanket Mukeshkumar, Aditya Choudhary, Pushpendra Kaushik

“…Pre and post-tests comprising 20 questions assessed participants’ knowledge, and skill assessments were conducted using a 7-item questionnaire on a 5-point Likert scale. …”
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Emergency relief supply chain design and trade-off analysis by Jae-Dong Hong, Ki-Young Jeong, Keli Feng

“…The trade-off analysis provides useful insights and theoretical knowledge to researchers and practitioners in the discipline of emergency logistics management. …”
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Unsupervised Context-Linking Retriever for Question Answering on Long Narrative Books by Mohammad A. Ateeq, Sabrina Tiun, Hamed Abdelhaq, Wandeep Kaur

“…UCLR also identifies key events surrounding each passage in the retrieved set and constructs a new set of passages from these key events, enabling coverage of both broader narrative structures and finer details. …”
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Mapping the Global Research on Drug–Drug Interactions: A Multidecadal Evolution Through AI-Driven Terminology Standardization by Andrei-Flavius Radu, Ada Radu, Delia Mirela Tit, Gabriela Bungau, Paul Andrei Negru

“…The present study addresses this gap by conducting a high-resolution, multidimensional bibliometric and network analysis of 19,151 DDI publications indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (1975–2025). Using advanced tools, including VOSviewer version 1.6.20, Bibliometrix 5.0.0, and AI-enhanced terminology normalization, global research trajectories, knowledge clusters, and collaborative dynamics were systematically mapped. …”
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Exploring dental and medicine health expenditures in Iran: financial protection and inequality analysis by Satar Rezaei, Mohammad Ali Mohammadi Gharehghani, Sina Ahmadi

“…Logistic regression analysis was used to identify the factors contributing to CDHE and CME. …”
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Latissimus dorsi muscle for functional reconstruction surgery of the triceps surae following soft tissue sarcoma resection by Daniela Kristina Carolino, Keiichi Muramatsu, Yasuhiro Tani, Masaya Ueda

“…Functional muscle transfers have multiple benefits such as soft tissue coverage and restoration of joint movement, which were achieved in this case. …”
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